Michael Bryan

Michael founded BlogForArizona.net as the Howard Dean presidential campaign blog for Arizona in 2003, and has been blogging ever since. The Blog is now coming up on 20 years of continuous publication, a major achievement for any political blog, which usually have the life-spans of mayflies. Michael is an attorney living in Tucson with his wife Lauren. In 2008, Michael remade BlogForArizona into a collaborative project. Michael is now but one of the contributors to the blog and provides editorial and publishing direction in consultation with the Board of Directors and the other authors. If you want to keep up with the latest Arizona and National political news in an entertaining quick hit of news and opinion, check out the BlogForArizona twitter feed, which Mike largely curates and writes. Michael is also an AAPC member who occassionally consults on political campaigns, strategy and communications.

Arizona’s Health Insurance Exchange Proposals

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by Michael Bryan The new federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or as the GOP has so ably dubbed it, "Obamacare", allows the creation of state-based insurance exchange boards that will collect information on single and small group policies and make them available to eligible buyers. The idea is to enable consumers to easily … Read more

My Name is Rachel Corrie at Live Theater Workshop in Tucson

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Posted by Michael Bryan Tucsonans are getting the chance to see a very well-done production of the play too controversial for the New York stage. My Name is Rachel Corrie, staged by Tucson's Live Theater Workshop's late-night Etcetera series, gives a semi-biographical account of the young life of international peace observer Rachel Corrie and her … Read more

The Trends Are Mostly Unappealing

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By Karl Reiner The war being waged by the competing Mexican illegal drug cartels to control the supply routes to the lucrative U.S. market continues unabated.  The Mexican government has announced that violence related to drug-trafficking killed 15,273 in 2010. This is a sharp increase over the 9,616 people reported killed during 2009. The extension … Read more